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beginning to come into existence- She dealt with her problem with alcohol while it was still in an incipient state.
incipient = beginning to come into existence
- WILLY [stopping the incipient argument, to HAPPY]:Arthur Miller -- Death of a Salesman
- Smasher, the incipient shepherd—John Steinbeck -- The Red Pony
- In this respect, it seemed to me, his incipient clinic was already a success.Tracy Kidder -- Strength in What Remains
- In my incipient craziness, a knot in the tree resembled the head of a man.James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
- And the water, because of incipient flooding, wasn't safe to drink when we got there.Tracy Kidder -- Mountains Beyond Mountains
- Yet it was not exactly the solicitude of an incipient father.William Faulkner -- Light in August
- I look at our hands, her smooth one, the nails pale moons, mine with its tattered cuticles, its skin of incipient toad.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- The incipient panic that had started a few hours earlier had driven them to the brittle edge of riot.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- This bore some resemblance to incipient rigour, and was accompanied by a marked sinking of the pulse.Robert Louis Stevenson -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
- The shock and the incipient pain had partly sobered him.James Joyce -- Dubliners
- They represented qualities that she felt and despised in herself—incipient meanness, conceit, cowardice, and petty dishonesty.F. Scott Fitzgerald -- This Side of Paradise
- 'Let me go to bed, then,' answered the boy, shrinking from Catherine's salute; and he put his fingers to remove incipient tears.Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- INCIPIENT RIOT QUELLED AT 47TH AND HALSTED.Richard Wright -- Native Son
- The man bent, puckered his lips, and blew on the incipient fire, gentle as a mother kissing her child, and the sparks sprang into lambent flames.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance
- It was now the season of incipient preparation for dinner.Harriet Beecher Stowe -- Uncle Tom's Cabin
- When he removed his boots he discovered incipient frostbite on several toes.Jon Krakauer -- Into Thin Air
- Thus the incipient attachment was stifled down.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- There is nothing so inspiring in life as the sight of a legitimate ambition, no matter how incipient.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- Hugh Miller gave something which resembled an incipient smile.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
incipient = beginning to come into existence
incipient = beginning to come into existence
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